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Murder suspects fear they can’t get a fair trial after state police acknowledge listening to portions of phone calls with their attorneys.

Jailed Defendants Expected Private Attorney Calls. They Didn’t Always Get Them.. This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center, International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, Report for America, and Investigative Editing Corps. Bobby...

Guardian RFID has found a way not only to further surveil people behind bars, but also to profit from it.

The communication between a defendant and his or her attorney is supposed to be confidential, even if the defendant is currently housed in a jail pending trial. But the Maine Monitor has found that's not always the case when defendants use jail telephones to talk with their attorney.

Starting on Feb. 1, if any state prison receives a piece of personal mail, it would get returned to the sender unopened.

To curb the introduction of drugs into the prison system, the state has hired a Florida-based firm to scan inmate mail, check it for contraband and then send digital copies of the mail to each prison.

The company also says they have renegotiated contracts with more than 100 correctional facilities to lower the cost of calls, and over 50% of their calls now cost less than $1. During the pandemic, they also provided free calls, emails, and video chats – more than 95 million in total.

For Jessica Brown, whose husband Michael is an inmate at Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Clayton, sending letters to her spouse is one of the primary ways she communicates with him. But starting Feb. 1, Jessica will have to send letters to her husband to a private corporation in Florida called Securus Technologies. There, […]

The Department of Correction reported that the contractor that manages the jails’ phone system recorded nearly 2,300 calls between inmates and lawyers with three public defender firms. The screw-up, first reported by the Daily News in March, has put attorney-client recordings into the hands of prosecutors in all five boroughs, and could jeopardize hundreds of cases.

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